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Aswath Damodaran's mental models

2 claims Aswath Damodaran made fit 2 mental models. Most often: Incentives, Probabilistic thinking. Everything they said here.

Models we see in what they say

Our reading: their claim applies the idea without naming it. The claim is theirs; filing it here is ours.

Incentives

Look at what people are rewarded for; it explains more behaviour than what they say, your own included.

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Venture capitalists are judged on the price they entered and exited at, not on the quality of the business they built.

  1. Aswath Damodaran Professor of finance at NYU’s Stern School of Business VC success is measured based on price at entry and price at exit on an investment, rather than the quality of the business built The Scaling and Profitability Trade off: Venture Capital’s Weakest Link!aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com · 2 Sept 2026All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsVC success is measured based on price at entry and price at exit on an investment, rather than the quality of the business built

    ↗The Scaling and Profitability Trade off: Venture Capital’s Weakest Link!aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com

    2 Sept 2026

Probabilistic thinking

Think in odds, not certainties, and bet heavily only when the odds are clearly yours.

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Nobody can yet know whether the current enthusiasm for AI is excessive, so anyone claiming conviction about how it resolves is overreaching.

  1. Aswath Damodaran Professor of finance at NYU’s Stern School of Business anyone who claims to have conviction that they know what's coming is being either ignorant or arrogant AI’s Bar Mitzvah Moment: From Hype & Hope to Business Questions!aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com · 20 Aug 2026All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsanyone who claims to have conviction that they know what's coming is being either ignorant or arrogant

    ↗AI’s Bar Mitzvah Moment: From Hype & Hope to Business Questions!aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com

    20 Aug 2026